Coinheritance of Hereditary Elliptocytosis and Deletional Hemoglobin H Disease

J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2017 Mar;39(2):e69-e70. doi: 10.1097/MPH.0000000000000750.

Abstract

Hereditary elliptocytosis is an inherited red blood cell membrane disorder characterized by typical peripheral blood smear findings of elliptocytes or rod-like red blood cells. Hemoglobin H disease is a form of α-thalassemia disease resulting in mild to moderate hemolytic anemia. The authors report 1 case of a girl who was diagnosed with oculo-auriculo-vertebral spectrum and a coinheritance of hereditary elliptocytosis and deletional hemoglobin H disease. She had moderate, non-transfusion-dependent anemia. The red blood cells showed marked poikilocytosis and fragmentation. The parents were α-thalassemia carriers and the father had the typical red blood cell morphology of common hereditary elliptocytosis.

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Child, Preschool
  • Elliptocytosis, Hereditary / complications*
  • Elliptocytosis, Hereditary / genetics
  • Erythrocytes, Abnormal
  • Female
  • Genotype
  • Goldenhar Syndrome / complications*
  • Humans
  • Hyperbilirubinemia, Neonatal / etiology
  • Male
  • Sequence Deletion*
  • alpha-Globins / genetics*
  • alpha-Thalassemia / complications*
  • alpha-Thalassemia / genetics

Substances

  • alpha-Globins